Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1925 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1925 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Report. Annual report of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution, year ending June 30, 1925 [with report of secretary, etc., and appendix containing scientific papers].
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Smithsonian Institution
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Smithsonian Institution
Date:
1926
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1926-01-01T00:00:00Z
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19260101
Publication End:
19261231
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Smithsonian Institution
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13
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1926
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SI 1.1:925/1
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xii+633 p. il. 4 por. 8 pl. 72 p. of por. and pl.
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(Publication 2836.)
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CONTENTS.—Report of secretary of Smithsonian Institution [with reports of subordinate bureaus, including library, and editor's report on publications issued].—Report of executive committee of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution.—Proceedings of board of regents of Smithsonian Institution.—Spiral nebulae and structure of space; by C. Wirtz.—Immensities of time and space [with bibliography]; by A. Vibert Douglas.—Certain aspects of high-pressure research; by P. W. Bridgman.—Lightning and other high-voltage phenomena; bv F. W. Peek, jr.—Chemical elements and atoms, lecture delivered in honor of Bohuslav Brauner, by G. Urbain; [translation].—Manufacture of radium, by Camille Matignon; [translation].—Chemistry of solids; by Cecil H. Desch.—Terrestrial magnetism in 20th century; by Daniel L. Hazard.—Some causes of volcanic activity; by Arthur L. Day.—Geology in service of man; by W. W. Watts.—Yeasts, chapter in microscopical science; by A. Chaston Chapman.—Tropical cyclones and dispersal of life from island to island in the Pacific; by Stephen Sargent Visher.—Isolation with segregation as factor in organic evolution; by David Starr Jordan.—Biological action of light; by Leonard Hill.—Animal life at high altitudes; by R. W. G. Hingston.—Nest of Indian tailor bird; by Casey A. Wood.—Needs of the world as to entomology; by L. O. Howard.—From egg to insect; by R. E. Snodgrass.—Rôle of vertebrates in control of insect pests; by W. L. McAtee.—Carnivorous butterflies; by Austin H. Clark.—Potato of romance and of reality; by William E. Safford.—Relationof geography to timber supply; by W. B. Greeley.—Historical geography of early Japan; by Carl Whiting Bishop.—Excavations of sanctuary of Tanit at Carthage; by Byron Khun de Prorok.—Smithsonian Institution; [by C. G. Abbot].—Sir Archibald Geikie; by Sir Aubrey Strahan.—Ned Hollister, 1876-1924, by Wilfred H. Osgood; [with Bibliography of Ned Hollister, 1892-1925, prepared by Gerrit S. Miller, jr.].—Index.
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